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The ending "opolis" sounded to them like something that might come "ontopofus" -- and that, again, brought "octopus" into the mind.
The Extra Day Algernon Blackwood 1910
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The keepsake also includes a booklet with an explanation of how and why each item was chosen, and a personal message.www. zen-opolis.com
GBK Productions Gives Back at their 2007 MTV Gifting Suite 2007
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And there are more storms brewing: The Thaw , about a deadly parasite unleashed by melting polar ice caps; Strays , which strands four Americans in a clicking-hot Russian nuke-opolis; Creature From the Black Lagoon , reimagined as a dying-ocean parable; and 2012 , a world-ender from disaster-master Roland Emmerich, director of The Day After Tomorrow .
Scott Brown on the Looming Deluge of Eco-Disaster Flicks 2008
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From the moldy ashes of Old Orleans will arise a new and visionary city of the future: Sarah-opolis!
Sarah-opolis Slimbolala 2006
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And there are more storms brewing: The Thaw , about a deadly parasite unleashed by melting polar ice caps; Strays , which strands four Americans in a clicking-hot Russian nuke-opolis; Creature From the Black Lagoon , reimagined as a dying-ocean parable; and 2012 , a world-ender from disaster-master Roland Emmerich, director of The Day After Tomorrow .
Scott Brown on the Looming Deluge of Eco-Disaster Flicks Scott Brown 2008
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Oh, I was beginning to tell you about Newport -- _my_ Newport, the Public Garden of Boston, _alias_ Hub-opolis -- which you, poor things! belonging to the
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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After being deposited there by the government and then abandoned, the residents and the mob have remade it according to their needs - a kind of kleptopolis or mob-opolis, literally oozing with crime.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Even those who've traveled to the giga-opolis only by way of their televisions often shake their heads in awe.
Fore, right! 2009
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After being deposited there by the government and then abandoned, the residents and the mob have remade it according to their needs - a kind of kleptopolis or mob-opolis, literally oozing with crime.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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After being deposited there by the government and then abandoned, the residents and the mob have remade it according to their needs - a kind of kleptopolis or mob-opolis, literally oozing with crime.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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